I am asking about the cassock, whose story is well-known in our Church literature, where the “abbot” covers the nakedness of a brother who has fallen in a trespass. Where is it? Times will never run out of stories, of the falls that pass without being mentioned, as well as those which resonate loudly, the ...
Read moreAuthor: Father Elia Mitri
To Father Fadi Wakim
That the Angel of Tripoli and Al-Koura makes you a priest of God on the Sunday of the Samaritan Woman is an eloquent decision. In this Paschal period, we are in front of icons that were planted before us for our salvation. All the faces came out of nothing into being. From Thomas, who doubted ...
Read moreAdvice
You will not be a complete human being without the people you love as well as those who annoy or irritate you… do you have room for advice? Lighten up on reminding yourself of faults that you have seen in those you do not like. Do not rush into quarrelling. Train yourself up on finding ...
Read moreBrother, Pray for Me!
People are more and more moving away, nowadays, from what is essential in the life of communion, that is, from asking for support in prayer. This is heedlessness coupled with excessive self-reliance, that is, keeping away from seeking God’s help, as well as forsaking the parlance of the Saints (1 Thessalonians 5:25). Today, who would ...
Read moreYou are the Light of the World
In the early nineties of the last century, I worked in the Spiritual Court for about three years. Then I submitted my resignation, never to return. Once, a dignified lady from another Church came to see the Metropolitan of our Archdiocese, who is loved by all the Christians, or rather, by all our people, in ...
Read moreThe Reasoning of the Great Ones
One of the brethren was entrusted with talking to a few young people in his parish about the sin of lying. He called me asking me to help him find references for his talk. I directed him to a few great ascetic fathers who have left a written legacy, and told him to search for ...
Read moreThe Healthy Person
There are two sins that most of us commit in diverse ways. The first is that we often neglect that Christ died for our sins, that is, we overlook that our faith in God’s salvation prevents us from committing sins. I am not talking only about those who have distanced themselves from the mystery of ...
Read moreThe Striving of Heroes
I saw her in front of me in our Church at the Sunday service. She was accompanied by three young children. Her face was new to me. She caught my attention with two things, her coming early to Orthros, and her company. In prayer, it is up to Man to fight everything that draws him ...
Read moreTo Live a Paschal Life
The question whose answer has established the order of the Liturgy of the Paschal period is: “how to live a Paschal life?”. We concluded the Great Lent, in which we adamantly sought God, His mercy and His victory. What is left after we have reached the feast? In addition to the gifts of the fast, ...
Read moreIntegrity in Life
If the voices that were born to object to the wrong, to the wrong of the great before that of the little, to individualism and egoism, and to all that is stupid…, if these voices were asleep, then you should fear for everything that has meaning in this life, fear for everything that you care ...
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